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...morning opened the campaign that ended at Bizerte and Tunis. It was the 1st Division's first action as a complete division since it landed in Oran in November. So successful was it that the enemy got out of Gafsa without a fight, and three days later the ist pushed 18 miles to El Guettar and into the hills beyond...
...hills come close together in a narrow pass, and after that there is flat going to the sea. The plan was for the 1st Division to seize the hills to the north, for the 9th to take Djebel Berda and the other hills to the south, then for the ist Armored to push through the pass and see what it could do. This would keep the enemy engaged while Montgomery was attacking toward Gabes, and with luck the armor might get through to Rommel's rear...
People. Before his press conference, Franklin Roosevelt had spent a crowded week. Into his office had marched a long parade of visitors. Vice Admiral Raymond A. Fenard, 56, balding chief of the Giraud-ist French naval mission, had brought a model of the 35,000-ton French battleship Richelieu. Builder Henry J. Kaiser brought another model, of the new 514-ft. aircraft carriers that will roll off the ways of his Vancouver shipyards at the rate of six a month by the end of 1943. Bearing no gifts, but only urgent business, had come such men as Cordell Hull, Sumner...
...Russian Marc Chagall (TIME, Oct. 26) showed an eight-foot, 1917 portrait of himself astride his wife's shoulders, and giggling. Under it was a 1941 photograph by Manhattan's George Platt Lynes of Art ist Chagall, still giggling, behind a bouquet of flowers...
Field, now 48, enlisted as a private in the ist Illinois Cavalry in 1917, was transferred to the 12 2nd Field Artillery, 33rd Division, rose through the ranks to a captaincy by war's end. In France, he got into the hottest part of the fighting in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. The Tribune itself praised his war record when he came home in 1919, declared he had "won the love" of his regiment. The Chicago News's famed front line correspondent, Robert J. Casey, who was a fellow officer with Field in the 122nd, describes...